Our employer refuses to partner with us for a sustainable vision for the future. Therefore, the UTLA bargaining team believes the bargaining process with our employer has been exhausted, and the two parties are at an impasse.
We see the Janus lawsuit for what it is — not a court case about freedom of speech but a well-funded, long-planned attack by anti-union, anti-worker billionaires and corporations to weaken unions and open the door to privatizing education and other critical social services.
Parents and community members held a surprise protest today targeting a board member of Excelencia Charter Academy, Samuel Robles at his restaurant. Excelencia, which is about to open a new charter site, has admitted violating the Brown Act’s open meeting law by preventing public access to its meetings.
Accelerated charter school teachers overwhelmingly pass a strike authorization vote for affordable healthcare, just cause for dismissal, and other priorities. Charter school educators at The Accelerated Schools (TAS) have been in contract negotiations with their employer since April 2017.
In September 2016, when Kimberly Hinkston got her first key to her own classroom at Wilton Place Early Education Center, she was beyond excited. Having worked her way up from a teaching assistant at other LAUSD schools, Hinkston was ready to get to work and be a part of a family-focused school.
Los Angeles voters delivered for public education in yesterday’s primary election, sending Gavin Newsom and Tony Thurmond into the runoffs for governor and state superintendent and rejecting Antonio Villaraigosa’s gubernatorial bid.
We are the ones who will save public education in Los Angeles. On May 24, more than 12,000 of us gathered in Grand Park for the All In for Respect rally in the spirit of teacher rebellions happening across the country.
On Thursday afternoon, May 24, UTLA members, parents, students, and community organizations filed into the Grand Park, downtown Los Angeles, by the thousands to demand a fair contract agreement. If no agreement is reached, strike authorization votes are expected to take place in the Fall.
UTLA’s “All In for Respect” rally and major demonstration is the culmination of one year of escalating actions around UTLA’s contract demands. If no agreement is reached, strike authorization votes are expected to take place in the Fall.
It's now time for LAUSD to address our contract bargaining demands. After more than one year of escalating actions tied to their bargaining demands — including UTLA’s commitment to a May 15 Unfair Labor Practice sympathy strike — SEIU Local 99 reached a Tentative Agreement with LAUSD yesterday.
